Seasonal Frenzy

While days grow shorter, the list of things to fit in them grows longer.  Autumn is beautiful, but full of contradictions. Everything in nature says slow down, rest, watch the leaves fall, yet our lives fill with after school schedules, clubs, classes, holiday plans, leaf raking, cold weather preparations... Getting lost in the frenzy too often becomes the norm. Energy drains and susceptibility to colds, allergies, blues, sleeplessness, procrastination, doldrums and pain increases. We cannot lighten your load, but we can help the load feel lighter, less consuming, by keeping your nerves in balance, your worries in check, your resistance to a maximum and your pain to a minimum. 

Too frenzied to enjoy the season? Not This Year! is a Fall resolution we can help you keep.

A Revitalizing Boost

Some of us need fuel just to search for a solution. Some of us just need a nudge to keep us on track. Wherever your energy, a few simple cell salt options can make a big difference. After all, they are made of the minerals that our cells need.

Combinations Make It Easier

Tonic - Tissue E: As phosphate compounds in our bodies have a lot to do with energy and connections, this phosphate quintet offers well rounded, support for young and old, especially when overall vitality is running low.

Debility - Tissue B: With three vital phosphate compounds, this remedy targets weakness, recovery, convalescence and acute anemia, to cover a range of growth, repair and vitality issues.

Bioplasma: All twelve cell salts in every tablet lets your body pick and choose just what it needs to fight the blahs, blues or simply out-of-balance symptoms.

Singles Take Closer Aim

Calc phos: The cellular building block remedy offers boundless support when growth, puberty, convalescence, or structural stress leaves you
drained, discontented and susceptible to acute anemia, weak digestion, fatigue and joint pain.

Ferrum phos: The iron phosphate remedy addresses acute anemia, fatigue and frequent colds as well as symptoms of inflammation, acute fever, redness, and throbbing pain.

Kali phos: The nerve nutrient cell salt remedy helps the nerves kick in, calm down and stay steady whether stress, pain, worry or sadness have you sleepless and drained.

Steadying The Nerves

Stress, some people seem to thrive on it, some don't seem to feel it at all, some feel it everywhere, some choke on it, some suppress it... but we all have a limit and crossing it is not fun. Don’t wait until you max out to give your body the remedies that keep your nerves healthy, your stress response to a minimum and your mind clear. It might take a homeopath to find the best match, but there are plenty of solutions right here:

Combinations For Balancing Stress

Nervousness #4: Whether emotional distress causes the nervousness or the worn out nerves cause the emotions, nerves and emotions can be readily untangled by this remedy.

Hyland’s Calms Forte: This extremely popular addition to our Apothecary has helped many wearied, frenzied, anxious nerves find the restful
healing sleep they need.

Hyland’s Calms Forte 4 Kids: Whether too restless to sleep at night or too frenzied to focus during the day, this absolutely safe, non habit-forming remedy can help your children find a natural balance.

Nervous Tension - Tissue P: This cell salt combination offers structural, mental and emotional support anytime stress catches up with
you. Designed with expectant mothers in mind, so it specializes in safe fundamental support.

Tranquility #74: A gentle calming combination to lighten your day.

Anxiety #320: A master calmer for restlessness and irritability day or night.

Bach Flower Essences can be the mildest way to put a positive spin on any situation. Take the Bach Questionnaire to find just the blend for you.

Singles Targeting Stress

A great number of single remedies are available to address individual situations. And a great number of homeopaths are available to help you find the perfect fit (see Find a Practitioner on our website). But meanwhile here are a few interesting options:

Arsenicum alb: The #1 worrier’s remedy provides the ultimate solution to those who cannot find enough to worry about, enough to do for their
cause, enough dirt to clean or enough fears to fret over.

Coffea cruda: What coffee can do, this remedy can undo whether the jitters, hypersensitivity and sleeplessness result from caffeine or stress.

Ignatia: The grief resolving remedy offers healing support to many emotional situations in which anger, anxiety or grief lead to illness, pain, sleeplessness...

Nux vomica: Before or after stress, deadlines, partying... catches up with you, this ‘remedy for the modern lifestyle’ can help you safely minimize the effects and treat the restless colds, flu, headaches,
indigestion... that result.

Then there’s Gelsemium and Lycopodium for performance stress, Chamomilla for irritable, contrariness and the list goes on and on.

The Pain Response

Pain can be a body’s way of saying “STOP! Help! Don’t Do That!” But what are we likely to answer? “Here’s an anti-inflammatory now be quiet!” With our homeopathic remedies, you aren’t blocking the body’s language, you are addressing the cause. For instance: While its immediate relief is usually very fast, Rhus tox also helps the body move out toxins that often lead to joint stiffness; and, while calming the inflammatory response, Ferrum phos addresses the acute anemia or inefficient hemoglobin underlying redness, fatigue or headaches. The trick lies in matching the remedy’s qualities with your body’s clues.

Combinations Offer An Array Of Options

Headaches can be hard to pin down as each has its own character. So we offer quite a few options:

HeadAches #33: How does your head feel? As if caught in a vice? Is it throbbing severely? Heavy over the eyes? Hypersensitive? This remedy
covers these symptoms and more.

Migraines #233: Sometimes it takes a more specific remedy to turn the key.

Plus Hyland’s Headache and Migraine Headache Relief; and Similasan’s Computer Eyes Eyedrops to help when eyestrain contributes to your pain.

Joint and Muscle pains come in many forms as well:

Rheumatic Pain #14: Relieves inflamed, sore painful joints bothered by arthritis, injury or wear.

Hyland’s Arthritis Pain Formula: Covers muscle, joint, back and neck pain related to arthritis or overexertion.

Homeopet’s Joint Relief: Designed to help aging dogs and cats get back in step.

Backache/Sciatica #199: Backs, joints, nerves and muscles can all communicate better with this complex combination.

Hyland’s Backache with Arnica: Targets lower back pain caused by strain, overexertion or cold exposure.

Hyland’s Leg Cramp Ointment: A warming relaxing non-greasy solution to cramps and muscle spasms.

MuscleAches #44: Relief and support for sore, injured, bruised, spasming, strained muscles and joints.

Beyond that there are more nerve specific options like Neuralgic Pain Tissue O, Wise’s Pain Tabs #417 and Neuralgia #9.

Singles Target Their Own Kind Of Pain Wherever It Strikes

This list could be practically endless so here are the highlights:

Apis: Reduces swelling and calms burning stinging pains especially shiny hot swollen joints.

Arnica: Treats sore, bruise-like, injury-related pains old or new.

Belladonna: Gives a calming, cooling solution to violent throbbing, red, hot pains, especially headaches and acute earaches; and hot spots like
teething issues and sore throats.

Bryonia: Addresses pains that grow worse with slightest motion; its frontal headaches want to buried under a pillow and its swollen red
joints want to be pressed on to keep them still.

Calc phos: Calms headaches related to study or acute anemia, especially if connected to growth or convalescence.

Causticum: Relaxes stiff necks, backs and joints suffering with burning tearing pains.

Ferrum phos: Reduces inflammation and speeds healing thus resolving many pains including throbbing headaches, teething issues and hot spots.

Kali phos: The nerve nutrient cell salt calms a wide range of pains including nervous headaches and sore backs.

Ledum: Repeated ankle sprains, rheumatic pains that extend up from feet, and cold joints that prefer cold applications.

Mag phos: Anti-spasm cell salt unknots tension and cramps, and quells radiating pains wherever they grab you.

Nat mur: Pressing splitting headaches, irritating dryness and painful fever blisters and cold sores.

Nux vomica: Overdid-it-again symptoms need this balancing, calming remedy for restless pressing headaches, pains, flu and gastric issues.

The Basics Of Building Resistance

This much-covered subject bears a brief review before the cold and flu threat sets in again. (For more detailed discussion, see our February 2005 E-News - "Avoiding a Cold Invasion") Stocking up on a few key remedies can save you days and weeks of misery.

Combinations For Seasonal Support

Boiron’s Oscillococcinum: This popular remedy is so good at helping the early stages of flu that some of its fans take it once a month throughout the flu season - just in case.

Hyland’s Complete Flu Care: A remedy packed with relief for all flu stages.

Flu #86: Relief and prevention for sudden to slow, hot to mild, restless to motionless flu and severe colds and all their aches and pains.

Colds Solutions with Zinc #399: Plenty of relief for light to medium cold and congestion symptoms plus an extra dose of prevention.

Hyland’s C-Plus Cold Tablets: When your child starts to sneeze and sniffle, you don’t have to feel helpless.

BHI Heel’s EC Nasal Spray: Fast healing relief for nasal symptoms.

Singles For Seasonal Support

Aconite: The first remedy to take to stop colds at the first sniffle or sign of fever especially after a chilling breeze or emotional shock.

Belladonna - If it’s sudden, hot and restless, don’t wait to take this remedy - the master fever-tamer.

Ferrum phos: This anti-inflammatory cell salt boosts resistance before and lends support throughout simple fevers and colds.

Hepar sulph: If you catch colds too easily when weather turns cold, this might give you and your drippy sneezy cold a needed break.

Nux vom: Specializing in restless, stress-induced colds and flu symptoms with severe chills. Overdid it again? Don’t wait until the cold catches up with you.

Pulsatilla: Lingering colds and flu with must-sit-up coughing fits, yellow mucus, much sneezing and a need for fresh air.

A Few Other Stress Responses To Prepare For

Sometimes we forget that stomachs, faces and nightmares can be stress responses, too. But as long as you have these remedies available, you have safe, worry-free solutions whatever the cause.

Gas Tabs Wise's #413 - Covers all levels of gastric upset resulting from digestive or emotional stresses.

Sleep #173 - Not a sedative, not addictive, safe for kids and adults alike, this remedy can help you calm those nervous, excited, tired, stressed out nerves and sleep!

Acne Tissue D - Sometimes your face reveals your stress first, this one can help you keep your pores clear and worry-free.

Recovery Remedy #77 - The multi-faceted remedies in this combination offer a range of support for headaches, hangovers, flu, colds, gastric symptoms and other stress effects.

Handy Kit - Packs 12 essential remedies to have accessible all the time for minimizing aches and ailments and maximizing opportunities.